# GitHub Traffic Illusion

**Published by:** [Nathaniel Hall](https://paragraph.com/@d3nathaniel/)
**Published on:** 2025-05-12
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@d3nathaniel/github-traffic-illusion

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I have two open source projects—one published under an organization, the other under my personal account. The organization project got a few tweets to drive traffic; the personal one had no promotion at all. Yet both have similar traffic.It feels like GitHub has too many spiders, creating an illusion of popularity for open source projects. I’m not sure how GitHub’s recommendation algorithm works, but maybe like X (Twitter), you only get trickles of traffic by jumping on trending topics.

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